Autumn is nice. It is even nicer when you get a chance to stroll along the river to view the reddish leaves of the trees. Despite of my busy days at the lab doing experiments and preparing for the upcoming JLPT (maybe it's too late..huhuhu), I still be able to afford one evening to visit Kiyomizudera (one among hundreds of UNESCO's sites here) during its 'Light-up'.
Being there with two guys who also happened to come and study in Kyoto last March, I'm quite sabishii (lone
ly) to see loving couples walk themselves up to the tera. I got to know from a Japanese friend that in a love relationship between a Japanese guy and a Japanese girl, a Japanese guy usually tend to act over-macho, over-protective but in the meantime also calculative and not gentleman. That is the main reason why Japanese girls have tendency to search for a foreigner boyfriend. I personally did not agree with this as I always do believe that Love itself is magical; when it strikes you at the heart, everything else like stupid behaviour or bad deeds just doesn't matter that much as you have to love somebody for who they are, were and will be. Love neither should be a burdon to oneself nor should restrict oneself from being himself/herself. Lo
ve should support us to be the best in everything we venture into. A labmate of mine spend hours of time and even sleep at the lab to finish his experiments on time so that he could spend one whole week of holiday with his girlfriend who currently resides up north in Niigata while another friend sticked to bringing bento (boxed lunch; usually home-cooked) or eating salad everyday just to buy pricey present for his girlfriend. So who said that a Nihon-jin guy is not a gentleman or romantic, maybe it does not apply to all but most of them..I don't know...
One night, when I accompany a friend to the Sakyo-ku post office (Japan Post, its mado-guchi offers 24 hour service..see picture). I have personally experienced a situation involving a couple and the old oba-chang (female senior citizen..In Japan, retirees still very muc
h wanted for part-time jobs). It started when this couple of lovers requested to pay for the charge to send a pile of their letters with credit card. As the clock just ticked 2 a.m in the morning, the old lady refused to accept the payment as she said that it might not be accepted by the system. The guy suddenly shouted in rage that he never seen such a stupid post worker in his life like this old lady and preached to the old lady what is the meaning of 'customer is always right'. While the old lady keep apologizing, the girl slammed the counter, said a few angry words and pulled her bf out from the post office. Nobody acted to solve this 15 minutes drama (if in Malaysia, I promised that this guy must have been knocked out by other customer.... who were waiting in long lines behind him). I'm quite shocked but did not dare to react in this foreigness situation of me. After that, the old lady continued serving other customer with her shaky hands.
Whether my friend's opinion is true or not, I would like to call to everyone to love, respect and value everyone with honour regardless of their age, skin colour, ideology or whatever characteristics that makes us different from one another (especially involving senior citizens, children and female). Only with that, every single unit of living things in this world from Jerusalem to Congo and Sierra Leone could live in peace. Peace for all, let's spread the love...
ly) to see loving couples walk themselves up to the tera. I got to know from a Japanese friend that in a love relationship between a Japanese guy and a Japanese girl, a Japanese guy usually tend to act over-macho, over-protective but in the meantime also calculative and not gentleman. That is the main reason why Japanese girls have tendency to search for a foreigner boyfriend. I personally did not agree with this as I always do believe that Love itself is magical; when it strikes you at the heart, everything else like stupid behaviour or bad deeds just doesn't matter that much as you have to love somebody for who they are, were and will be. Love neither should be a burdon to oneself nor should restrict oneself from being himself/herself. Lo
ve should support us to be the best in everything we venture into. A labmate of mine spend hours of time and even sleep at the lab to finish his experiments on time so that he could spend one whole week of holiday with his girlfriend who currently resides up north in Niigata while another friend sticked to bringing bento (boxed lunch; usually home-cooked) or eating salad everyday just to buy pricey present for his girlfriend. So who said that a Nihon-jin guy is not a gentleman or romantic, maybe it does not apply to all but most of them..I don't know...One night, when I accompany a friend to the Sakyo-ku post office (Japan Post, its mado-guchi offers 24 hour service..see picture). I have personally experienced a situation involving a couple and the old oba-chang (female senior citizen..In Japan, retirees still very muc
h wanted for part-time jobs). It started when this couple of lovers requested to pay for the charge to send a pile of their letters with credit card. As the clock just ticked 2 a.m in the morning, the old lady refused to accept the payment as she said that it might not be accepted by the system. The guy suddenly shouted in rage that he never seen such a stupid post worker in his life like this old lady and preached to the old lady what is the meaning of 'customer is always right'. While the old lady keep apologizing, the girl slammed the counter, said a few angry words and pulled her bf out from the post office. Nobody acted to solve this 15 minutes drama (if in Malaysia, I promised that this guy must have been knocked out by other customer.... who were waiting in long lines behind him). I'm quite shocked but did not dare to react in this foreigness situation of me. After that, the old lady continued serving other customer with her shaky hands.Whether my friend's opinion is true or not, I would like to call to everyone to love, respect and value everyone with honour regardless of their age, skin colour, ideology or whatever characteristics that makes us different from one another (especially involving senior citizens, children and female). Only with that, every single unit of living things in this world from Jerusalem to Congo and Sierra Leone could live in peace. Peace for all, let's spread the love...
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touching seh!!!
things to ponder...
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